Ludwig Wittgenstein: Writings on Mathematics and Logic, 1937–1944: Volume 4, June 5, 1941–January 6, 1943: A German–English Edition Hardcover – February 28, 2022 by Victor Rodych

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Author: Rodych Victor

Edition: New

Package Dimensions: 0x0x788

Number Of Pages: 300

Release Date: 28-02-2022

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This five-volume German-English edition presents, for the first time, new translations of all of Wittgenstein’s mature 1937–1944 writings on mathematics and logic. The 1st (1956) and 3rd (1978) editions of Wittgenstein’s Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics omitted, unsystematically, more than half of Wittgenstein’s later writings on mathematics; for that reason, the reader will here read some entire manuscripts for the first time, and other manuscripts for the first time as unabridged, sustained pieces of writing. Philosophers and other interested readers will gain fresh insight into Wittgenstein’s perspectives on a wide range of topics, from Gödelian propositions and the Cantorian conception of real numbers, to the nature of mathematical propositions and the diversity of proof techniques. Other subjects covered include: mathematical sense; axioms and self-evidence; prudish proofs; the functionality of extra-mathematical application; undecided mathematical conjectures; rule-governed unwinding; and G. H. Hardy’s conceptions and claims.
Book Description
This five-volume German-English edition presents, for the first time, all of Wittgenstein’s mature 1937–1944 writings on mathematics and logic.
About the Author
Victor Rodych is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Lethbridge. He is author of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Wittgenstein’s philosophy of mathematics and co-author of Introduction to Logic, 15th edition (with Irving Copi and Carl Cohen, 2019). He has also published on Karl Popper’s philosophy of science and John Searle’s Chinese Room argument.

Timothy Pope is Professor Emeritus of German at the University of Lethbridge. He is author of The Holy Fool: Christian Faith and Theology in J. M. R. Lenz (2003), and has been translating Wittgenstein’s later writings on mathematics in collaboration with Victor Rodych since 2001.